Alois Moravec

Alois Moravec (25 January 1887-24 October 1942) was a Czechoslovakian track inspector who was executed for his family's role in assisting Operation Anthropoid in 1942.

Biography
Alois Moravec was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria Hungary (present-day Czech Republic) on 25 January 1887, and he married Marie Moravcova and had a son, Vlastimil, who they nicknamed "Ata". Alois Moravec worked as a track inspector as well as being involved in news and courier activities, and he continued to live an average life even after Nazi Germany annexed Czechoslovakia in 1938. He was unaware of his wife's involvement with the Czechoslovak Resistance during Operation Anthropoid in 1942, and he was confused when the Gestapo arrested him and his son; his wife took cyanide rather than be taken alive. The father and son were both executed by firing squad at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 24 October 1942, alongside several other family members and friends.